This summer we took a week off to road trip up CA. We went to the beach for a few days, camping for a few days and then up to the bay to visit family.
1st stop, a place we never get tired of, Irvine CA. We stayed two nights at the Doubletree Hotel, which was perfect because it was in the Irvine Spectrum shopping center, one of our favorite places :) We went to a new park that had nice clean white sand
Jayson had fun on his own
We ate our favorite Pho place and bakery where we get the biggest mochis ever and 10 other things that are soo good!
Day 2 we were at Laguna Beach all day, we all got burnt. See those tiny fins in the picture, we actually saw dolphins!
of course we had to bury Jayme in the sand while Jayson fed her
Jayme's best friends Marianna and Paulina met us there to play
Jayson had fun on his own
We ate our favorite Pho place and bakery where we get the biggest mochis ever and 10 other things that are soo good!
Day 2 we were at Laguna Beach all day, we all got burnt. See those tiny fins in the picture, we actually saw dolphins!
of course we had to bury Jayme in the sand while Jayson fed her
Jayme's best friends Marianna and Paulina met us there to play
It was a long day... Jay had to carry all three kids...I helped after a while
on our way out, we stopped at the Spectrum one last time for some shopping...the girls ended up getting wet in the water fountain, perfect spot right outside of H&M..so it kept them busy while Jay and I took turns going in:)
Then up to Santa Barbara for what they call "glamping" (glamorous camping)... but first we went to downtown SB to take the kids on a surrey ride
El Capitan Canyon
the tent rooms were decent, but we could've used a little bit more glam...haha! Coming from a hotel to this put the girls in a little bit of shock mainly because of the bugs. The first night they were whining they were scared and wanted to go back to the hotel...BUT After two days/nights of swimming, bbq and smores, they thought it was the coolest thing and didn't want to leave
We spent one day at the beach that was right across the campground
it was too cold for swimming, but Jayme battled the incoming tides to write her masterpiece in the sand, while Jaylin and Jayson threw rocks in the ocean
And, we couldn't pass up a family shot. That's Jayme taking the picture
Jay wrote on this rock and said we would go back in a year to see if it's still there :)
The second day we checked out the harbor and went to the aquarium, where we saw a huge crab...I wish I could eat it :) Then went back for swimming at the campground
We bbq'd and made smores both nights
While it was an experience, we were anxious to go to the bay. We had enough nature :) especially Jay since he spent the last night fighting off a raccoon that kept trying to get into our tent
Our last stop was San Jose, the kids love going there because they get to play with their cousins. Jay making the kids surrender so he can shoot them with water guns...Uncle Jay is always one of the kids
We spent one day at Vasona Park in Los Gatos, a place that Sheila and Tony take the kids to bike ride regularly.
Even Jayson got to ride
Deguzman Kids
After a full day at the park, Capital Drive-Ins to watch Wall-E
Even the dogs came to watch movies with the Deguzman Family from SoCal
The DeGuzman family from Sacramento were all nice and cozy
And the DeGuzman Family from San Jose, who go regularly. We only got to watch one movie because it was time to head home the next morning. 